I've read Monster Hunter Vendetta, am most of the way through Unseen Academicals, watched a movie or two, eaten some turkey, and have otherwise been a little too shelled from work to devote much time to life outside my head.

Two and a half more weeks to the end of the year, for me. I think I owe my employer two-hundred-odd unit tests and some additional code in the meantime, though.

Work-wise, I've been tied up in a release that's finally coming to a head ... about an hour from now.

Outside of work, RHIT homecoming has come and gone. Related to that, Verizon has been bugging me. It seems I have some charges on my next bill for text messages. I sent or received some 40-odd messages trying to stay abreast of doings in the Haute.

Related: Legos are expensive, but I think I won the trip to Toys R Us. (Go me?)

Also noticed: guy in the pawn shop with a GPS ankle bracelet. I'm guessing a restraining order was involved, because he didn't seem to be under house arrest.

I seem to have picked up some sort of infection in the Haute or just before or after, and took almost long enough to get my butt to the doctor for things to become serious. Fortunately, they aren't, and time plus amoxycillin cures many a post-nasal drip. (Related: Zyrtec-D is fantastic.)

As far as things not related to bodily fluids are concerned, I got out to Knob Creek the last weekend of September, and mostly proved I'm so out of practice that I've forgotten what I'm doing (hammer bite!). A few trips to Open Range will work out some of the kinks, pistol-wise, but that just means I'll be back on the paper. And I need to build a target stand before I go back to KCR. The rentable stands weren't much three years ago, and they're even less now, regrettably.
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Mostly because it seems slightly cleaner than the current approach to handling, e. g., OracleExceptions, where one might care about some of the error codes represented by the exception, but not all of them:

Some flexibility is lost vs. using if-else statements instead, but you could produce the same thing with typeof and nobody sane does that if they can get out of it, either. Semantically, it's pretty much equivalent and, syntactically, it's more verbose (to no obvious semantic advantage), so I'm sure it's not actually a good idea. (Additional evidence it's a bad idea: I'm sure I'm not the first to hit on this idea, yet it isn't implement in C# as far as I can tell. Presumably, those guys know what they're doing.)

Granted, it would be even better if Oracle would throw different exception types for different error codes instead of throwing the one type with slightly different data, but some problems seem, prima facie, less intractable than others.
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The Expendables

2010.08.18 13:17 - Entertainment, Movies

Summary: Big, dumb, loud, violent, and more fun than it has any right to be.

2.5/5

The Expendables is a terrible film. The acting is awful, the story is stupid, the premise is preposterous, the characters crummy. (It is, in fact, so awful I think it must be intentionally bad.) It is also awesome. Honestly, this was probably the most fun I've had in the movie theater in at least a year and a half. (And I thought A-Team was great fun, FWIW.)